Description.  What is it like to network in an environment where you only have a few minutes to get to know your colleague, determine if you’d like to work with them, identify shared interests, or just make a good impression? It’s a little like speed dating – where you have just six minutes with another person before you’re forced to rotate to talk to someone new. In this Speed Networking session, graduate students will learn the basics of how to effectively speed network, get to know other graduate students, and identify how you then build a network from a brief encounter.

Learning Outcomes. As a result of this session, participants will be able to: 

1. List key elements of effective networking

2. Network effectively with other graduate students

3. Describe next steps in building an effective network

Presenter(s). Michelle Rodems, Ph.D., is program manager for the School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies (SIGS) and the Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning. Michelle acts as a liaison between the graduate student professional development efforts of SIGS and the faculty professional development efforts of the Delphi Center. Michelle's research and professional interests include teaching and learning in higher education, educational technology and social media, and collaboration between faculty, student affairs, and academic affairs.

Ms. Becky Clark is Associate Director and Career Coach at the UofL Career Development Center.  She offers presentations and individual appointments for students for a range of services related to the career development process, including job search strategies, resume/CV and cover letter preparation, interviewing techniques and strategies and mock interview practice, graduate/professional school application critique, transitional skill development from student to the professional world, and other career services.

Please register for this event here.